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Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Importance of Causality

Wittgenstein doesn't seem to be saying why it is that causality would be a form of language. It seemed like he was just saying that it's a convenient way for us to organize atomic facts in other words to derive them from each other. And if the things that we can deduce from them happen to correspond with actual facts in the world, then we say, oh, this causality thing seems to work out pretty well, right? But it's not the causality in the world. We can make these assumptions just to try to organize as long as we understand that that's what we're doing. If you literally had to go and discover all the individual atomic facts

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